Canceled: Friends Public Talk by Eben Kirksey

Eben Kirksey Friends of the Institute for Advanced Study Member School of Social Science Imagined futures have already arrived in Shenzhen. Chinese scientists have grabbed headlines for using the fast and cheap genetic engineering tool CRISPR-Cas9 to produce genetically modified human embryos. Biotechnology innovations in China signal broader shifts in global economic, political, and cultural power, opening up new horizons for the human species. DNA of endangered species is being preserved by BGI, a company actively imagining how the tools of biology might also be used to reanimate organisms that are already extinct. Life itself is being redesigned with Shenzhen Speed.

Date & Time

March 20, 2020 | 5:30pm – 7:00pm